Serge Daney in English

One more text from Recrudescence . The section "Ghosts of Permanence" is now translated.  Life is a Dream* André** is tougher than...

 Another text from Recrudescence . Sissi, the Young (Ostrich) Empress*  "Can one say that Sissi ignored the fear of seeing clearly? Cer...

Another text from Recrudescence . Zeffirelli, Tchi Tchi  It's an experiment anyone can conduct. You decide, at a certain moment, not to ...

 Another text from Recrudescence . Downstairs , Study The film begins and we know nothing about it. It dates from 1932 and it's not even...

 Another text from Recrudescence . Tireless Cranes  If When the Cranes are Flying* were a question, the answer would be: from the third sho...

 Another text from Recrudescence . The King Was Naked — Let me ask you a poser, said the film. Do you know the title of the film that in 193...

 Another text from Recrudescence . A Hopeless Verneuil What is more formidable than a Romanian farmer? Let's take one from the 1940s. Th...

Another text from Recrudescence . Who Likes Maurice Cloche? Nothing is more embarrassing than the way certain films go about winning their c...

Another text from Recrudescence . A Good Lelouch? Yes If we knew quite well how a bad Lelouch looked on the big screen, we didn't yet kn...

Another text from Recrudescence . The Bacchantes Stripped Bare Is a naked woman in Agfacolor still a woman and, if so, is she really naked?...

A text from Recrudescence . The Devil, Master of the Screenplay   We often hope that French films will give us the euphoria of a burst of sp...

New quarterly film magazine Narrow Margin centres its second issue on Diagonale, the French alternative film production company created by ...

Time for the annual round-up of Serge Daney news. Time also to acknowledge that this blog is twenty years old: the first post was in Novembe...

So, it turns out that the previous post ( Manga, Sake for the Eyes , Art Press, 1986) was merely a shorter rewrite of a longer piece publish...

New translation of a 1986 text on manga for the magazine Art Press. Thanks to Ryan Waller for suggesting it on Bluesky. The text seems to co...